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George Gore (judge)

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173:"This George, the youngest son of Arthur Gore of Newtowngore, Baronet, was on account of his services to his country – lately in peril – appointed Attorney General by George, then happily entering upon his reign. His health being unequal to the discharge of this office, he was advanced to the Court of Common Pleas, and for 25 years performed the part of a most prudent and incorrupt judge, at length having retired A.D. 1745. His entire old age was spent in cultivating and adorning these lands he obtained as a dowry, always his delight. Borne down by years, he departed this life A.D. 1753 in the 79th year of his age." 168:"Sacred to the memory of George Gore and Bridget, his wife. She was an heiress to Henry Sankey of Tennelick who, having acted with energy on the side of the King when civil war had raged, obtained the lands which you see lying around as the reward of his military valour. Being in no less favour with the people than with the prince, supported by the suffrages of this very body, he was elected in the first parliament which Charles II appointed. When Bridget had given birth to eight children, she left behind a mournful loss, 13 September 1727, aged 39 years." 178:"Here lies Arthur, having survived his father a short time only, who, labouring with almost incessant asthma, died A.D. 1758. Also here lies the only surviving daughter of these same George and Bridget – Bridget Harman, wife of the Dean of the Cathedral Church of Waterford, a woman adorned with some superior accomplishments during her life. She was most learned and deservedly most dear to her friends. Early, though not unprepared, removed by death 22 November 1762, scarcely 39 years of age, she departed never sufficiently to be lamented." 114:
Elrington Ball believed that the reason for his failure to achieve promotion was quite simply his lack of legal ability: he was much loved by his friends, but none of them ever praised his judicial qualities. In the 1740s his health, which had never been good, failed, and he retired in 1745. The
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in 1722, wrote to the Government pointing out that death, retirement, illness and overwork had reduced the Irish judiciary to "a pitiful condition" and arguing that Gore would fill the office of Chief Baron well. In the event he was passed over in favour of Sir
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complaint, which made his previous office too onerous (his son Arthur was plagued all his life by asthma, and died of it). Almost at once, he began to lobby for the Chief Justiceship of whichever court first became available. He had the support of
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and was made Attorney General in 1714. He accepted a place on the Court of Common Pleas in 1720, apparently due to an
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retirement itself was a matter of controversy since Gore insisted on being replaced by his nephew
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Translation by Rev. James Lyster, Rector of Tashinny 1848–1854, with corrections by J. R. Garstin
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and his wife Eleanor, daughter of Sir George St George, knight, of Carrickdrumrusk,
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Longford constituencies
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Gore married Bridget Sankey, daughter and co-heiress of John Sankey of Tenelick,
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Gore was buried in the family vault in the church of
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Index

George Gore (disambiguation)
Attorney General for Ireland
Court of Common Pleas (Ireland)
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet
County Mayo
County Leitrim
Shrewsbury School
Trinity College Dublin
Middle Temple
Irish Bar
Irish House of Commons
Longford Borough
asthmatic
William King
Archbishop of Dublin
Jeffrey Gilbert
Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer
Bernard Hale
Robert French
County Longford
County Sligo
John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
Henry Gore, 1st Baron Annaly
Dean of Waterford
Tashinny


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